For months, Haiti’s criminal gangs have been pushing the country’s capital further into chaos, forcing the shutdown of public offices and schools and sending tens of thousands of people under a hail of gunfire into soiled makeshift camps with no potable water, no latrines and no hope.

Avenue John Brown, one of three main roads that connect ...Read more

As Nicolás Maduro clings to power following a widely disputed presidential election, desperation and fear are driving a growing number of Venezuelans to support harsher economic sanctions against his regime — even at the risk of crippling the country’s vital oil industry.

A previously undisclosed poll by U.S. firm ClearPath Strategies ...Read more

The United States will impose a 25% tariff on imports from any country that purchases oil products from Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced Monday, saying that move seeks to penalize Caracas’ socialist regime for deliberately sending tens of thousands of criminals to the U.S.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social account, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The Oceanside Police Department has been offered grant money for a 13-month trial of new “first responder” drones that can soar from a downtown rooftop within seconds of a 911 call and be on scene before any officers arrive.

Already used in dozens of cities across the United States, the drones offer a bird’s-eye view of a ...Read more

DENVER — Half a million dollars for marijuana growing efficiency? Cut.

Thirty-eight million dollars for school bus electrification? Cut.

Seventy-two million dollars to promote alternate transportation? Cut.

And so on. Dollar by dollar, through programs big and small, whether by “haircut” or outright elimination, Colorado lawmakers have ...Read more

Advocates of psychedelic-assisted therapy in California have had a rough few years.

While Democrat-led Oregon and Colorado legalized psychedelic mushrooms and other mind-altering substances, and even Republican-dominated Utah and Texas began exploring their potential to treat mental illness, lawmakers repeatedly shot down similar plans in the ...Read more

BOSTON — A parade of destruction and torched Teslas on the streets and at dealerships across the nation prompted an alert from the FBI over the weekend.

The feds said the public should be on the look out after “recent nationwide incidents” involving the electric car company, including at “dealerships, storage lots, and charging stations...Read more

America’s public lands, from its majestic national parks to its vast national forests, are at the heart of the country’s identity.

They cover more than a quarter of the nation and large parts of the West. Some are crisscrossed by hiking trails and used by hunters and fishermen. Ranchers graze cattle on others. In many areas, the ...Read more

SpaceX is set to send up a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from the Space Coast that could bring sonic booms across Central Florida on Monday.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the NROL-69 mission is targeting a 1:48 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, with a backup possible Tuesday at ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president on Monday after the country's Constitutional Court dismissed the impeachment motion passed by the National Assembly late last year.

Han was handed the reins to the country after lawmakers impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol on Dec. 14 ...Read more

Days after a tent demonstration in support of Gaza had been cleared, Jewish students at Columbia University gathered on Passover to share their reasons for participating in the campus protests. Joining them was Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student who had been tapped to liaison with the school administration.

Khalil is currently being...Read more

BALTIMORE — Avery Fauntleroy was 16 years old in 2008 when he entered the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School, a juvenile detention center in Maryland.

What was meant to be a place of rehabilitation for him became something far worse.

During his three-month stay for violating the conditions of his home detention order — which was originally ...Read more

Rev. Terri Steed Pierce has encountered hate before. People have stood outside her church and shouted that as a gay woman she is an affront to the gospel. Videos of her sermons have been altered to make her sound like a cartoon character and used in social media campaigns to disparage women and the LBGTQ+ community.

But Sunday, March 9, was the...Read more

After a twitching pinky finger led to a diagnosis of young-onset Parkinson’s disease, Keith Krehbiel, then 42, stopped at a bookstore on the way home to learn more about the progressive neurological disorder before telling his wife Amy the shocking news.

“I remember sitting in a parking lot and hearing this sad piece by Miles Davis,” he ...Read more